Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Each Of Buhari’s Foreign Trips Costs 1$Million – Fayose

...Buhari’s Unnecessary
Trips The Bleeding Economy”

Ekiti State
Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has counselled President Muhammadu Buhari to stay
at home and govern the country instead of junketing from one country to the
other, saying; “foreign countries won’t
solve our problems for us and the President’s incessant foreign trips is
already bleeding the economy with about $1 million being spent per trip.”

The governor, who
said most of the trips embarked on by the President were unnecessary, added
that ministers or at best the Vice President could have been made to attend
most of the functions being attended abroad by the President.

According to a
statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said that “the President should
rather listen more to those of us who criticise him instead of those hailing
every of his wrong steps either because of what they intend to gain or for fear
of persecution.”

The statement read;
“Conservatively, about $1 million goes into every of the foreign trips and the
way the President is going, foreign trips alone might gulp 20 percent of the
Federal Government budget and that will be disastrous for the dwindling economy
of the country.

*Fayose

“It is even more
worrisome that while the economy is already in shamble and insecurity pervades
the land with Boko Haram burning Nigerians, including children alive in the
North East, our President is busy globetrotting.

“From available
records, in June 2015 alone, the President travelled to NigerRepublic, Chad,
Germany and South Africa.
Also in 2015, the President travelled to United
States of America in July, BeninRepublic in August, Ghana and France
in September, India in
October, Iran, France and United
States of America in November and in December, he
travelled to South Africa, BeninRepublic.

“This year alone,
President Buhari has travelled to the United Arab Emirate, Kenya, Ethiopia
and he is leaving for France
and United Kingdom
today to spend four days abroad.